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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said onchain fundraising could make capital formation “more efficient, fair, and transparent.”

Valida Pau / The Information: Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is exploring a sale after it struggled to complete a fundraising round; SambaNova was last valued at $5B in 2021  —  Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems is exploring a sale, after it struggled to complete a fundraising round, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.

For roughly the same price as a flagship smartphone, you could instead buy an affordable humanoid robot that's meant for consumer and educational use. Noetix Robotics, a Beijing-based startup, revealed its Bumi robot that's priced at nearly 10,000 yuan, or around $1,400. Unlike higher-end robots, the inexpensive Bumi stands at around three feet tall and weighs about 26 lbs. You won't find Noetix's latest robot on assembly lines or in research labs, especially since early demos only show Bumi walking around and dancing. According to a TechNode report, Bumi will offer a programming interface that allows for learning or creative tasks. The report also noted that Noetix is planning to put the Bumi up for preorders later this year. Before the Bumi, Noetix Robotics showed off its expertise by competing in the world's first half-marathon for robots with its N2 model, which was one of four robotic competitors that completed the race. At such a low price point, Bumi

Technical Business Development for Startups lead at Microsoft complains 'my whole job is begging for GPUs.'

Forbes: A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among the elderly; a study predicts the AI market for aging and elderly care will grow to over $43B in 2025  —  The AI boom has brought with it a new crop of startups looking to build a business on an urgent but vaguely dystopian idea: solving loneliness among the elderly.

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the Merge Labs brain-computer interface startup he's set to announce soon with co-founder Alex Blania. While Shapiro's official title is unclear, sources say he will be part of Merge's founding team and has been positioned as a key leader in talks with investors. Those talks are ongoing, but Merge expects to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from OpenAI and others, as The Financial Times earlier reported. S … Read the full story at The Verge.

Here's how you can scale your impact — and your company — by building processes that turn chaos into clarity.

We took in-wheel motor prototypes to a racetrack in Slovenia to find out if they have the potential to reshape the EV industry.

According to sources speaking with UK newspaper The Times, foreign operatives from China and Russia are increasingly using "sex warfare" to target American tech professionals. The tactic involves sending attractive women to seduce employees, gain access to trade secrets, and sometimes even marry and have children with their targets.Read Entire Article

In his latest stunt documentary, British journalist Oobah Butler exposes the ridiculousness of internet hustle culture.

With its integrated model for research, innovation, and commercialisation, VentureOne’s CEO says the incubator is helping turn the UAE’s bold tech ambitions into globally competitive companies.

The ASEAN-Korea Centre (AKC) hosted the ASEAN-Korea Startup Week 2025, a five-day event aimed at promoting innovation and investment cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Korea. The event, held from Monday to Friday at Ondream Society in Seoul, brought together 30 promising startups from 10 ASEAN member states. Established in 2018, the annual Startup Week identifies early-stage startups across ASEAN with strong growth potential and connected them with investors, accelerators, and venture capital networks in Korea. This year’s edition went beyond the traditional pitching competition, placing a stronger focus on capacity building. Participants — selected through recommendations by ASEAN embassies in Seoul and the ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (ACCMSME) — represented sectors such as artificial intelligence, health care, climate technology and education. Throughout the week, startups attended workshops led by

Architeck, a tenant company at the Korea Water Cluster, won three awards from the National Research Council of Thailand during the 2025 Taiwan Innotech Expo held Oct. 16-18 at the Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1. Located in Daegu, the Korea Water Cluster is the country’s national industry cluster operated by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment. Organized by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office and the Taiwan External Trade Development Council, the three-day expo is one of Asia’s largest invention and technology exhibitions. This year’s event featured 544 inventions from 19 countries, drawing strong international competition. Architeck, a startup incubated at the cluster’s business support center, has benefited from various programs such as prototype production and exhibition participation support. The company’s participation in this year’s expo was part of such initiatives, providing an opportunity to showcase its technological capabilities on the global

Katie Roof / The Information: Sources: Adobe held talks to acquire Synthesia, which makes AI tools that generate video avatars of people, for ~$3B; the startup was valued at $2.1B in January  —  Adobe in recent months held talks with Synthesia, a London-based maker of artificial intelligence software that generates video avatars …

Rocket Drew / The Information: Source: SoftBank held talks about acquiring Agility Robotics for $900M+ before participating in Agility's funding round valuing the startup at $1.75B pre-money  —  SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has long predicted a future where robots would outnumber people and take over many jobs from humans.

Can Trump take credit for North Carolina's booming biopharma industry? Which drugs could get a shortcut to the market? All that and more on this week's episode of "The Readout…

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: Data center startup Crusoe raised $1.4B led by Mubadala and Valor, more than tripling its valuation to $10B+ in one year and taking its total funding to $3.9B  —  Infrastructure provider to OpenAI triples its valuation to $10bn in a year  —  Data centre start-up Crusoe has raised $1.4bn …

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: Cyprus's financial regulator grants a crypto license to Revolut, allowing the startup to offer crypto services across the EU under new regulations  —  British finance app Revolut has been granted a licence by Cyprus that will enable it to continue to target crypto-related services to grow its business …

ITHACA, N.Y. — In high-tech science, breakthroughs often hinge on the smallest details – like the step before the experiment even begins. Before a lab can detect a contaminant in drinking water, find performance-enhancing drugs in an athlete’s blood or measure volatile compounds in food, scientists must first extract the target chemicals from a tangle […] The post New Cornell Startup Targets Faster, Cheaper, Greener Testing appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

"All of the pieces that are required to make it viable exist."

We recently published Market Shockers: 10 Stocks Collapse by Double Digits. Oklo Inc. (NYSE:OKLO) is one of the best performers on Wednesday. Oklo extended its losing streak to a third straight day on Wednesday, shedding 13.86 percent to close at $120.12 apiece following criticisms from the Financial Times which profiled the company as a $20 […]

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026  —  SHANGHAI — Chinese autonomous delivery startup Neolix on Thursday said it raised $600 million from investors led …

Niki Kitsantonis / New York Times: Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations  —  Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders.

The suit illustrates the challenges platforms are having around controlling what happens to their data.

The crushed-up soda can disappears in a cloud of steam and—though it’s not visible—hydrogen gas. “I can just keep this reaction going by adding more water,” says Peter Godart, squirting some into the steaming beaker. “This is room-temperature water, and it’s immediately boiling. Doing this on your stove would be slower than this.”  Godart is…

While vegans and consumers with dairy allergies and intolerances are still looking for non-dairy cheeses, says the firm, the hoped-for surge in interest from flexitarians has simply failed to materialize. The post Plant-based cheese startup Stockeld Dreamery shutters as flexitarian dream fizzles appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Rivian’s micromobility spinoff ALSO is attempting to make big moves in the small EV world, unveiling a new line of four-wheeled, pedal-assist electric quads aimed at both commercial and consumer markets. And in true Rivian fashion, these go beyond average cargo bikes, showing off sleek, tech-forward solutions ready to hit bike lanes instead of clogging up the streets. more…

Former Tesla AI chief Andrej Karpathy described Elon Musk's leadership as uniquely intense and hands-on, emphasizing small, highly technical teams, direct engagement with engineers, and a high-pressure, high-performance culture that prioritizes results over comfort. read more

Why are IPOs failing agtech startups? VC Kyle Welborn explains why M&A is now the dominant — and most realistic — exit path. The post Venture Capital’s View: Why AgTech Exits Are All About M&A Now appeared first on CropLife.

Venus developed a rotating detonation rocket engine with potential applications in hypersonic missiles and space launch vehicles The post Lockheed Martin Ventures invests in rocket propulsion startup Venus Aerospace appeared first on SpaceNews.

Astronomers and wildlife experts are up in arms over an unprecedented approach to maximizing solar energy generation.

It's not the size of your accelerator, it's how you use it Gene editing startup Metagenomi has tapped AWS's Inferentia 2 accelerators to speed the discovery of potentially life-saving therapies, and said its efforts cost 56 percent less than it would have incurred using Nvidia GPUs.…

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Japanese venture firm Fast Track Initiative unveiled on Tuesday its fourth fund of about $130 million, or ¥20 billion. The firm is riding a wave of interest since Shimon Sakaguchi, the founder of one of ...

Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: The NHL reaches multiyear licensing agreements with prediction market startups Kalshi and Polymarket, the first major US league to allow use of its trademarks  —  Licensing agreement is first of its kind between a major U.S. pro sports league and prediction markets

Ocean energy storage startup Sizable Energy just raised $8 million to bring its long-duration offshore pumped hydro system to market. more…

An immunology startup has a hefty round of cash to get its lead program through a pivotal study and advance another preclinical drug into human testing. Electra Therapeutics on Wednesday closed a $183 million Series ...

Since co-founding Generate:Biomedicines in 2018, Molly Gibson says the bar has gone up for building AI-focused biotech startups, courtesy of the rapid progress in applying AI to biology. Gibson believes her newest ...

Bloomberg: Japanese regulators' plan to cull the smallest listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is spurring a record number of startup buyouts in Japan, while IPOs slump  —  A plan to cull the smallest listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is spurring a record number of buyouts of young companies in Japan …

Satellite manufacturer Apex is planning a high-stakes demonstration of interceptor technology in orbit The post Startup takes on space-based missile defense — with its own cash appeared first on SpaceNews.

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Findem, an AI-powered talent acquisition startup, raised $51M in equity and debt, including a $36M Series C led by SLW, taking its total funding to $105M  —  In a competitive hiring environment, the ability to find exceptional talent that isn't necessarily knocking down your door is hugely desired and not always easy to attain.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — By commercializing their research, two University of Florida scientists are trying to get practical artificial intelligence (AI) tools into the hands of our state’s farmers. The goal is to build their business by increasing farm profitability, lowering the costs of inputs such as pesticides and labor — and feeding more people.  They […] The post With Startup, Researchers Plan to Help Growers Feed More People appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Law firm will use artificial intelligence in its business from the word go, cutting the cost of managing large business contracts

Bloomberg: Lagos-founded payments startup Moniepoint raised $90M at a $1B+ valuation, after raising $110M in October 2024, and says it processes $250B+ yearly transactions  —  Visa Inc.-backed fintech Moniepoint has raised an additional $90 million in investment to accelerate the startup's African expansion plans …

A Belgian startup led by satellite networking veterans announced $1.4 million in seed funding Oct. 21 to develop a virtual 5G modem, designed for multi-orbit compatibility across traditionally closed communications infrastructure. The post Belgian startup Nxgsat raises early funds for virtual 5G satellite modem appeared first on SpaceNews.

Michael Beltran / Rest of World: Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models  —  Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan's convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

Figma CEO Dylan Field says AI isn't a threat but an opportunity — urging workers to adapt and grow as the $28 billion design startup expands hiring despite industry-wide automation fears.

Knownwell, which provides primary care and weight management both virtually and in-person, has raised $25 million in new funding. CVS Health Ventures led the round, which bumped its total raised to $50 million. MassMutual Catalyst ...

Vega Health has raised $4 million for its business helping hospitals adopt artificial intelligence tools.

Flint, backed by Accel and Sheryl Sandberg, is developing autonomous AI websites that generate and optimize themselves without human oversight.

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference  —  The maker of ChatGPT and Sora wants to control its destiny, which means controlling the hardware that runs its software

In Rotterdam-based Paebbl's vision, concrete stores carbon dioxide, instead of emitting it.

Captery's efficient new AA/AAA battery promises a sustainable solution with ultra-fast charging and long durability.

The Korea Securities Depository (KSD) is expanding its “K-Camp,” a startup accelerator program, in a move to promote balanced growth of the startup ecosystem across the country, the stock and bonds deposit service provider said Sunday. The program launched in 2019 seeks to provide mentorship and investment opportunities to budding startups located outside Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. It has created jobs and attracted investment, establishing itself as a model for sustainable startup development — one that balances capital mobilization, talent distribution and balanced regional economic growth, according to the KSD. "K-Camp's role will be expanded to identifying and fostering innovation-driven industry players. Its mission is to address the longstanding imbalance in Seoul-centralized startup investment landscape," the company said. It operates in five regions — Daejeon, Gwangju, Daegu, Gangwon Province and Jeju Island. Budding startups founded within the past six years are provided with

KB Financial Group dispatched a delegation to GITEX Global 2025, the world’s largest ICT exhibition hosted by the Dubai Digital Authority, from Monday to Friday at the Dubai World Trade Centre, the group said Sunday. In attendance were over 6,500 firms, investors and institutions from more than 180 countries. They showcased next-generation technologies and industry trends, sharing strategies for driving digital innovation and securing future growth engines. The group’s participation sought to strengthen commercialization and global expansion of startups, as mediated by the KB Starters program, the group’s initiative to foster budding, high-potential industry players. The delegation led by Lee Chang-kwon, KB Financial’s head of digital & IT, met with local venture capital firms and government-affiliated organizations to discuss digital finance corporation. They visited the booths of autonomous driving startups to explore growth strategies for high-tech industries and startups. KB

AI startups like Cluely and Lindy are offering luxury housing and six-figure salaries to compete for top talent amid soaring Bay Area rents. read more

With venture capital becoming harder to secure, founders are turning to alternative funding strategies that offer more control and sustainability.

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more  —  Transcript 00:00:00 - AGI is still a decade away Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00 Today I'm speaking with Andrej Karpathy.

German launch startup HyImpulse has raised 45 million euros ($53 million) as it works to avoid becoming an also-ran in the European space launch race. The post German launch startup HyImpulse raises 45 million euros appeared first on SpaceNews.

These common but misleading pieces of startup advice can harm your company before it even has a chance to survive.

It is a yellow blob with no brain, yet some researchers believe a curious organism known as slime mold could help us build more resilient cities. Humans have been building cities for 6,000 years, but slime mold has been around for 600 million. The team behind a new startup called Mireta wants to translate the…

Some of the biggest names in tech dropped out and made billions, but that doesn’t mean you should What do Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have in common? Both dropped out of college, and both went on to become some of the biggest names in tech. Zuckerberg started Meta in 2004 from his Harvard dorm […]

BOSTON — Over the past decade, the University of Oxford spinout Genomics has been collecting just about any human genetic data it can get its hands on. Now it is launching a new product to get ...

Ron Conway stepped down from the board of Salesforce’s philanthropic arm after the company’s chief executive, Marc Benioff, said he supported President Trump and wanted the National Guard to come to San Francisco.

While some critics warn of an impending AI bubble reminiscent of past market crashes, the AI industry remains a magnet for substantial investment. read more

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Sources: OpenAI is proposing a “sign in with ChatGPT” feature for websites, letting startups charge OpenAI model usage costs to users' ChatGPT capacity limits  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast last week that he wanted ChatGPT to become “people's personal AI subscription.”

One year after emerging from stealth, Strella has raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered customer research platform, the company announced Thursday. The round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Decibel Partners, Bain Future Back Ventures, MVP Ventures and 645 Ventures, comes as enterprises increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to understand customers faster and more deeply than traditional methods allow. The investment marks a sharp acceleration for the startup founded by Lydia Hylton and Priya Krishnan, two former consultants and product managers who watched companies struggle with a customer research process that could take eight weeks from start to finish. Since October, Strella has grown revenue tenfold, quadrupled its customer base to more than 40 paying enterprises, and tripled its average contract values by moving upmarket to serve Fortune 500 companies. "Research tends to be bookended by two very strategic

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto raised $450M from Goodwater, General Catalyst, and others at a $7B valuation, as it prepares for an IPO  —  Zepto has secured $450 million in funding ahead of a public listing set to take place next year, underscoring growing investor interest …

Financial Times: HR software startup Deel raised $300M led by Ribbit Capital at a $17B valuation, up from $12.6B earlier in 2025, and says revenue crossed $100M in September  —  HR start-up raises $300mn from Ribbit, Coatue and Andreessen amid espionage allegations from rival Rippling

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M+ paid subscribers  —  Kuku, an Indian storytelling platform backed by Google, has raised $85 million in fresh funding as it aims to scale its audio …

Everyone has a bright idea about how to save power or boost performance, but how do you make sure your startup lasts the distance? The post Startup Tips To Get From Seed Funding To Series A, B, C appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

Financial Times: Analysis: ten loss-making AI startups, including OpenAI, gained ~$1T in valuation over the past year, fueling concerns of an inflating bubble in private markets  —  Unprecedented funding leads 10 groups including OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI to gain almost $1tn in value in past year

Keira Wright / Bloomberg: Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Southgate, a $2.9B initial undertaking to build renewable energy-powered AI data centers across Australia  —  Nvidia Corp. is partnering with Australian startup Firmus Technologies Ltd. to create a massive fleet of renewable energy-powered …

Mindlogic, a tech startup co-founded by two former McKinsey consultants, is carving out a distinct position in the crowded artificial intelligence (AI) market with smart AI-powered chatbot services for both consumers and enterprises. Founded in 2019, the company leverages generative AI to deliver tailored chatbot services, including Persona, a celebrity-trained chatbot for personalized user interaction, and Informe, a multilingual information agent for universities and public institutions, as well as FactChat, a multi-large language model platform. “In 2018, it started to become clear that AI technology was beginning to find practical, real-world uses … We realized that an AI capable of holding conversations like a human would soon be possible,” Mindlogic co-CEO Kim Yong-woo said during a recent interview with The Korea Times, at the company’s office in southern Seoul. “Our goal has been to build AI that brings people not just enjoyment, but real help; something that people genuinely

Farming may seem old-fashioned to many, but that hasn't been true for years. Tractors steer themselves, software crunches crop data and agriculture now ranks among the most technologically advanced industries.

Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia and AI coding startup Poolside plan a 500-acre data center on a Texas ranch powered by natural gas; sources: Poolside is raising $2B at a $14B valuation  —  CoreWeave and Poolside announce partnership for a data center built on a sprawling ranch in West Texas

The red-hot race to develop simple infusions that reprogram immune cells to fight cancer and other diseases just got another entrant. Liberate Bio has raised $31 million in seed funding exclusively from Khosla Ventures, CEO ...

Second huge increase in six months sees some devs heading for the exit Augment has updated its pricing model for Augment Code, an AI coding assistant, to be based on AI usage rather than message interactions. The company said its existing model "isn't sustainable" but users have calculated that the new one is more than ten times as expensive.…

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal  —  Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’

The German biotech banked one of the larger funding rounds this year to support an ovarian and non-small cell lung cancer drug that’s currently in early-stage testing.

Reuters: How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs  —  - India bets AI will create enough new opportunities to offset job losses  — AI tools supplant jobs built on routine tasks in call centers, customer service